b. Belfast, 1986
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and Magheramorne, N.Ireland
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design 2004 – 2008
CURRENT/UPCOMING
2025 SOIL, (group exhibition), Somerset House, London, England
2025 TBA, (two person exhibition), Dilalica, Barcelona, Spain
2025 (solo exhibition), DCA, Dundee
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Samhla, ATLAS Arts, Isle of Skye, Scotland
2022 Galalith, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, guest curated by Katherine Murphy, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Cithra, The Tetley, Leeds, England
2020 C I T H R A, Gasworks, London, England
2019 forgets in knots, Kantine, Brussels, Belgium
2019 drye eyes, Grand Union, Birmingham, England
2019 O-n, curated by David Dale Gallery, Glasgow at The Workbench, Milan, Italy
2018 present cOmpany,CCA Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland
2018 sequins, (with Sarah Rose), Glasgow International, Scotland
2017 lumpers and splitters, Prairie Underground, Seattle, U.S.A.
2016 he was there when I first smelled the smell, and now he is the smell, (with Zoe Claire Miller), Rinomina, Paris, France
2015 lipstick-NASA, Temporary Commission, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 fugue states, Lauren Gault / Allison Gibbs, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2015 I AM IN / losing you, Ripples on the Pond, Modern Edinburgh Film School, GSS, Glasgow, Scotland
2015 Plosive blows, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, The Netherlands
2014 Y.O.R.B, Atelier Am Eck, Dusseldorf, Germany
2013 Here Bianca!, GENERATORprojects, Dundee, Scotland
2013 Granular and Crumb, Modern Edinburgh Film School, ESW, Edinburgh, Scotland
2013 Sweet ensilage, Tramway 5, TRAMWAY, Glasgow, Scotland
2010 LACKS, the duchy gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS
2024 Footfalls, (group exhibition) curated by Yara Sonseca Mas, Britta Rettberg, Munich, Germany
2022 Human Threads (group), Tramway, Glasgow
2020 MEDUSE, ‘in the open’, (sound work), The Common Guild, Glasgow
2020 Some Triangular Thoughts (publication) with SLOWGLASS
2020 – C I T H R A – Compositions – one day immersive installation at Gasworks with sound installation by composer Richy Carey
2019 Low Plane Reality, Neil Clements, Lauren Gault, Lotte Gertz, Efremidis Gallery, Berlin
2018 billboard locations, Skibbereen
2018 Sonorous Objects with Richy Carey and Mark Bleakley
2018 RISKY ATTACHMENTS, Like A Little Disaster, Foothold, Polignano a Mare, Italy
2017 ØY Festival, Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland
2017 The Surface of Shrimp – The Gesture of Soap, (group) UVE Collection, Berlin, Germany
2017 STEM, Lauren Gault and Sarah Rose, Baltic39, Newcastle, England
2016 A Pattern Withdrawn, N. Dash, Lauren Gault, Norman Leto, Lucky Dragons, Park McArthur, American Medium, New York, U.S.A
2016 The Health Benefits of Eating Silica, with Zoe Claire Miller, Glasgow International, TRAMWAY, Glasgow, Scotland
2016 January Blues, (group), Frutta, Rome, Italy
2014 Portraits, Still Life and Landscapes, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England
2014 ‘read the room / you’ve got to’, curated by Quinn Latimer, S.A.L.T.S, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Waking Up a Shape, The Woodmill Press, Bristol, England
2014 Openaries 3 (participant), by Anna Mayer and Laura Aldridge, GI 2014, Glasgow, Scotland
2014 The Burning Sand, Volume 3 (launched at GI with performance ‘Such Lush Detail’), Glasgow, Scotland
2014 When two or more are together, Glasgow International (with Lauren Printy Currie), Glasgow, Scotland
2014 Dear Green , group exhibition, ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
2013 Good Luck, performance event with Perri MacKenzie and Kathryn Elkin, Dundee, Scotland
2013 You blink at the plughole, Mexico Project Space, Leeds, England
2013 When two or more are together, publication launch and screening, GSS, Glasgow, Scotland
2013 When two or more are together, Spike Island Associates (with Lauren Printy Currie), Bristol, England
2013 Issue 17, 2HB, CCA Glasgow (publication and performance), Glasgow, Scotland
2013 MY VERY EASY METHOD JUST SPEEDS UP NAMING PLANETS, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, Scotland
2011 WETODRY, (with Perri Mackenzie), Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011 Who would you rather? Intermedia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2011 PULL, (with Lauren Currie) Exhibition Space, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland
2010 BRITISH ART SHOW, Fringe Exhibition, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, England
2010 SHOWREEL, Collective Gallery,(Screening), Edinburgh, Scotland
2010 BOLD TENDENCIES IV, Peckham Multistorey Carpark, Hannah Barry Gallery, Peckham, London, England
2009 THEY HAD FOUR YEARS, GENERATOR projects, Dundee, Scotland
2009 MOULT-IN Ashleigh Neuiwenhuizen and Lauren Gault, Lower Foyer Gallery , Dundee, Scotland
2008 DAIS Tom Varley and Lauren Gault, Flat 9 Princes Street, Glasgow, Scotland
2008 NOW I KNOW MY ABC’S Glasgow Studio Warehouse, Eastvale Place, Glasgow, Scotland
2008 WHEN I STAND ON AN OPEN CART Wasps Studios Dennistoun, Glasgow
2008 DEGREE SHOW Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland
2008 STUDENT EXHIBITION Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2008 MEMBERS’ SHOW GENERATORprojects Dundee, Scotland
2008 EXHIBITION Roseangle Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
2007 MEMBERS’ SHOW GENERATORprojects, Dundee, Scotland
2007 THE GOLDEN HAMMER Lower Foyer Gallery with Henry Coombes, Dundee, Scotland
AWARDS / PRIZES / RESIDENCIES
2023 UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant, University of Southampton
2022 Creative Scotland Open Project Funding
2022 Atlas Arts, Tuath Residency (ongoing)
2022 RSA Residencies for Scotland – WASPS Skye Residency
2019 Residency, Gasworks, London
2018 Creative Scotland Open Project Funding
2017 Creative Scotland Open Project Funding
2017 Uilinn Residency, Skibbereen, Co.Cork, Ireland
2016 Hospitalfield Summer Residency
2016 Creative Scotland Open Project Funding
2015 Creative Scotland Open Project Funding
2015 Glasgow Visual Arts Award
2015 Creative Scotland Open Project Funding
2015 Hotel Maria Kapel, International Visual Artist Residency
2014 Anna Löbner Düsseldorf Exchange (2 month residency)
2014 Artist Bursary, Creative Scotland
2014 Cove Park, Emerging Visual Artist Residency
2013 Creative Scotland Quality Production Award
2013 Creative Scotland Professional Development Award
2013 Arts Trust Scotland
2010 Dundee Visual Arts Award
2009 Dundee Visual Arts Award
2009 Scottish Sculpture Workshop Residency
2008 Graduate Studio residency, SWG3 Glasgow
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Ireland
PUBLICATIONS
2022 GALALITH, with contributions from Lauren Gault, Katherine Murphy, Daisy Hildyard, Connie Brown, Dr Selina Guinness, Dr Katharine Earnshaw, Dr Giacomo Savani, Dr Orla Shortall, Richy Carey, Dr Sarah McCormack, and Michael Hill. Designed by Or Studio, Dublin.
2020 SOME TRIANGULAR THOUGHTS, SLOWGLASS EDITION
2015 I AM IN, Modern Edinburgh Film School Edition with Alex Hetherington
2015 a few tolerances, edition accompanying ‘fugue states’ at CCA Glasgow
2015 ‘Plosive blows’, edited by Irene de Craen&Lauren Gault, design Carla Peer, published by HMK
2014 ‘The Social Media of Too Long’ – A Place of (Rethought)Thought on Lauren Gault’ by Alexander Hetherington, GoMA Glasgow
2013 ‘Good Luck’ with Perri MacKenzie and Kathryn Elkin, printed by Generator Projects
2013 ‘You blink at the Plughole’, by Laura Simpson and Mexico Project Space
2013 ‘When two or more are together’, Lauren Gault and Lauren Currie with Spike Associates
2013 2HB Issue 17 ‘A long gaze or fixed look’, published by CCA Glasgow
2011 ‘Shifting the Frame:Lauren Gault’ by Rosalie Doubal, LINE Magazine
PRESS / PUBLICITY
2023 ‘Risky Disco’, Prof Sara Hendren, Harper’s Magazine
2023 Article, Dr Elsa Panciroli, Earth Heritage
2022 Galaith, ‘Critics Pick’, Declan Long, ArtForum
2022 ‘It is A Crime To Die: Lauren Gault’s Interanimacies’, Connie Brown, The Art Paper (New Zealand)
2020 ‘Commentaries: In the open’, Brandon LaBelle, The Common Guild
2020 ‘GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE’, Frieze Review
2020 ‘Cithra Critique’, Chris Hayes, Visual Arts Ireland
2020 C I T H R A, ‘Critics Pick’, Philomena Epps, Art Forum
2020 C I T H R A ‘Review’, Tess Charnley, This is Tomorrow
2019 drye eyes, review, Art Monthly
2019 O-n, Artviewer
2017 Risky Attachments, Artribune Italy
2016 KUBA Paris
2015 Lauren Gault: Lipstick-NASA, Summerhall TV
2015 ‘fugue states’ review, 4/5 star, Moira Jeffrey, The Scotsman
2015 ‘fugue states’, critics choice (visual art), The Scotsman
2015 ‘fugue states’ preview, The Guardian Guide
2015 The Skinny ‘fugue states’ Art picks 2015
2015 Collectors Monthly (Jupiter Artland image spread)
2015 Conversations: Lauren Gault, Fell
2014 The List, Anna Lobner Exchange winner (interview) The List
2014 ‘read the room, you’ve got to’, Contemporary Art Daily
2013 STV Dundee, Here Bianca!
2013 Sweet ensilage, Preview, The List
2013 Sweet ensilage, Review 4/5 star
2013 Tramway, Sweet ensilage, The Scotsman, Moira Jeffrey
2011 Lauren Gault: Shifting the Frame, Interview with Rosalie Doubal, Line Magazine
2010 Lauren Gault, The Skinny Showcase, The Skinny
TALKS
2024 Guest speaker, Glasgow School of Fine Art Friday event series, Glasgow School of Art
2024 Artist talk, Professional Practice Programme, University of Highlands and Islands, Orkney
2024 ‘Looking North’, talks series panel speaker, DCA, Dundee
2024 Samhla // Tùs-àite: Landscape and Affect, Isle of Skye with Dr Giacomo Savani, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
2024 Guest speaker, Professional Practice in Contemporary Art Practice, DJCAD, Dundee
2024 Artist talk, Landscape Decisions Programme Workshop with Dr Katharine Earnshaw
2023 Artist talk with Dr Elsa Panciroli, Palaeontology – Fosail, Samhla ATLAS Arts, Isle of Skye
2023 Artist talk, Samhla, ATLAS Arts, Isle of Skye
2020 SOME TRIANGULAR THOUGHTS, Lauren Gault on the writing of Martha Craig, Gasworks
2020 Wild Experiments – Rethinking Rewilding for the Anthropocene, Dr Jamie Lorimer (Public Programme at Gasworks)
2017 Steve Claydon: Roundtable Discussion contributor, The Common Guild, Glasgow
2016 Making Materialism: Materiality, Sound and Moving Image, CCA Glasgow (programmed by Richy Carey)
2016 raw feels / cooked feels, artist talk at CCA Derry-Londonderry
2015 Losing you, Modern Edinburgh Film School with Alex Hetherington
2015 Asks your voice, performative Q+A, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
2015 Jupiter Artland, Artist tour and talk
2015 Plosive blows, performance, Hotel Maria Kapel, The Netherlands
2014 ‘Fresh Eggs Don’t Float’, Friday event (artist talk), Cove Park
2013 Artist talk: Duncan of Jordanstone, MFA student gallery talk
2013 In conversation with Tramway Curator, podcast
2011 The Black Swan, Tether, Nottingham
2010 Spin, the duchy, Glasgow
2009 Hither and Thither, GENERATORprojects and Tethervision
POSITIONS
2024 (ongoing from 2015) Artlink Ideas team, KMAdotcom and Sensory workshop Artist
2024 Guest speaker, Professional Practice in Contemporary Art Practice, DJCAD, Dundee
2022 Visiting Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
2018 Assemble BSP, Artist in Residence
2017 Visiting Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
2017 Visiting Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
2017 Visiting Lecturer Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
2016 Visiting Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art (The Subconscious Unconscious Project Lead, 1 month SEA project)
2016 Material Vocabularies – Experimental Sculpture course developer & tutor
2016 Guest Lecturer Leith School of Art
2015 Guest Lecturer Grays School of Art
2012 Programme Coordinator, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012
2009 -10 Chairperson GENERATORprojects
2008- 9 Vice-Chair GENERATORprojects
CURATORIAL
2009 Vice-Chairperson GENERATORprojects
2010 Chairperson GENERATORprojects